missile225

jasneko

Johndis5 wrote:I love the expression on the cat's face. It is exactly the same expression my cat would get when introduced to a static charged balloon. HA!

Thanks Johndis5! Hehe awesome! Not that you do that to your poor cat right?;D

spilzer wrote:I was actually thinking about doing something with cats, balloons and static electricity for the Kawaii!!! derby. I think this is much better than anything I would have come up with. I agree that the cat's expression is just perfect.

Good job, Jasneko!

I'm sure yours would have been neat! So glad people are liking the expression. Thanks spilzer!!

cosmiccow wrote:I like the idea, but it kinda comes off as a cat wearing a heavy balloon shaped backpack more than a balloon that's stuck from static electricity.

missile225

tgentry

Thanks for the comments guys. I have about a thousand ideas for this derby and a new computer that actually completes simple operations in seconds rather than minutes like my old machine. I had a lot of fun doing this one, and with no headaches to show for it.

Before you start putting words in other people's mouths, you should probably read. I made it clear that I was not accusing the designer of ripping anyone off at all. I just think that this is poorly timed and that it is too similar to a shirt that is also currently being sold. Read this before you respond this time.

"If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"Champagne is a very kind and friendly thing on a rainy night." -Isak Dinesen

mjc613

What color shirt do you want to use? If it is asphalt, like the background, the shirt template needs to show that. (Right now it looks lighter than that.) If it is heather gray, you need to use the special heather template and change your thumbnail.

cosmiccow

capedcrusader514 wrote:Definitely diid this just for this derby. This is the exact setup as the problem the "monkey" has fallen from the tree and been shot. The rest is implied. Almost all the other entries in the derby have some sort of implied element as we can't have equations or txt.

cosmiccow

kylemittskus wrote:Before you start putting words in other people's mouths, you should probably read. I made it clear that I was not accusing the designer of ripping anyone off at all. I just think that this is poorly timed and that it is too similar to a shirt that is also currently being sold. Read this before you respond this time.

No reason to be snarky about it. i just said it was unfair to say they were all that similar. They're fundamentally different designs.

cosmiccow

From our good friend Wikipedia: "In essence, the problem is as follows: A hunter with a blowgun goes out in the woods to hunt for monkeys and sees one hanging in a tree, at the same level as the hunter's head. The monkey, we suppose, releases its grip the instant the hunter fires his blowgun. Where should the hunter aim and when should he fire in order to hit the monkey?"

Yes, of course the monkey hits the ground eventually. But at that point, we are no longer talking about the physics problem, we're talking about a dead monkey going splat. I'm currently in school for Aerospace Engineering, and nothing about your design makes me think of the classic thought experiment. The "hunter" doesn't have a gun, so he just seems like a slackjawed old dude in stereotypical safari gear who walked up on a gorilla (which is not a monkey, by the way) who happens to have a random dark sticking out of it. NOTHING about this embodies the idea of taking a shot at a monkey the instant that it lets go of the tree, which is what the problem is about. Nothing about it seems to embody physics at all, which is what the theme is about. Maybe it embodies awe and horror, but not physics.

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